Nandar Hlaing

Nandar Hlaing (Burmese: နန္ဒာလှိုင်; also spelt Nanda Hlaing) is a Burmese film actress of Mon descent. She was one of the leading actresses of Myanmar from mid 90s to mid 2000s. She won the 1998 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards for best supporting actress for her performance in Shwe Natha San-Ein. She also won the 2006 Academy Award for best actress.[1]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Nandar Hlaing. There is no family name.
Nandar Hlaing
Born (1974-11-02) 2 November 1974
Mawlamyine, Mon State, Myanmar.
NationalityMyanmar
Alma materYangon University
OccupationActress
Spouse
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(m. 2008)​
ChildrenZay Wati Hlaing
Zay Yati Hlaing
Zay Madi Hlaing
RelativesKhin Shwe (father-in-law)

She campaigned for the Union Solidarity and Development Party in the 2010 Burmese general election.[2] In January 2012, Nandar Hlaing's company, Mahar Nandar Trading Company, became the exclusive authorized retailer of Missha cosmetics within Myanmar.[3]

Career

Nandar Hlaing started her career as a calendar girl during the early 90s. During the country's transition to an open market system and the increasing popularity of TV commercials, she became a popular commercial actress along with Htet Htet Moe Oo and Khaing Thin Kyi. The Myanmar film industry then was on a decline due to shrinkage of the market and resulted in the expansion of video industry. Nandar Hlaing quickly transitioned to Video and Films, gradually establishing herself as one of the leading actresses of the country.[4]

Personal life

Nandar Hlaing is married to Zay Thiha, the son of Khin Shwe, a Burmese tycoon.[5][6] The couple wed in May 2008.[6] On 19 April 2011, she gave birth to her second daughter, Zay Yadi Hlaing.[7] On 24 July 2014, she gave birth to her third daughter, Zay Madi Hlaing, in Yangon.[8]

See also

References
  1. Aye Lae (8 February 2008). "HIV Film Wins Burma's Oscar". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. အနုပညာရှင်များကို အသုံးချပြီး ကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးပါတီစည်းရုံး. RFA (in Burmese). 5 October 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  3. "MISSHA COSMETICS". Mahar Nandar Trading Co., Ltd. (in Burmese). 2014. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  4. ချစ်ဆုဆွေ; အိမ်စည်စိုးစံ (22 April 2015). ကိုရီးယားထုတ် MISSHA အလှကုန် မိုးရာသီ အထူးအစီအစဉ် အဖြစ် စျေးလျှော့ရောင်းမည်. Yatanarpon (in Burmese). Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  5. "Commission Regulation (EU) No 411/2010 of 10 May 2010 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 194/2008 renewing and strengthening the restrictive measures in respect of Burma/Myanmar". European Commission. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  6. "Drug investigation, heavy punishment likely for Maung Weik". Mizzima. 3 July 2008. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  7. နေကွန်းထင် (6 May 2011). မိသားစု ပုံရိပ်တွေနဲ့ သမီးနှစ်ယောက်အကြောင်း ပြောတဲ့ နန္ဒာလှိုင်. Yadanapon (in Burmese). Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  8. Zwe Nyan (25 July 2014). တတိယမြောက် သမီးငယ်ဖွားမြင်တဲ့ နန္ဒာလှိုင်. 7 Day Daily (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
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